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This work investigates Bondi accretion to a rotating magnetized star in the "propeller" regime using axisymmetric resistive, magnetohydrodynamic simulations. In this regime accreting matter tends to be expelled from the equatorial region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Romanova , O. D. Toropina , Yu. M. Toropin , R. V. E. Lovelace

We propose that the X--ray emission from radio quiet AGN and galactic black holes is due to Comptonization of soft thermal photons emitted by the underlying accretion disk in localized structures (blobs). The power per unit area produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Francesco Haardt , Laura Maraschi , Gabriele Ghisellini

X-ray spectroscopy offers an opportunity to study the complex mixture of emitting and absorbing components in the circumnuclear regions of active galactic nuclei, and to learn about the accretion process that fuels AGN and the feedback of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Turner , L. Miller

Recently, an exact spherically symmetric analytic accretion solution was presented having simple $\rho \propto R^{-3/2}$ and $V \propto R^{-1/2}$ scalings in Hernandez et al. (2023). In dimensionless variables that solution forms a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 X. Hernandez , L. Nasser , P. L. Rendon

We present new XMM-Newton observations of two luminous and high accretion-rate radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z~2. Together with archival X-ray and rest-frame optical spectra of three sources with similar properties as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ohad Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , Hagai Netzer , Roberto Maiolino , Shai Kaspi

A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy

We analyse a sample of 21 `bare' Seyfert~1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), a sub-class of Seyfert~1s, with intrinsic absorption $\mathrm{N_{H}} \sim 10^{20}~ \mathrm{cm}^{-2}$, in the local universe (z $<$ 0.2) using {\it XMM-Newton} and…

The radio-X-ray slope in the fundamental plane of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is found to be steeper compared with that of radio-quiet AGNs in previous works. In this work, we reinvestigate the fundamental plane in radio-loud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Shuang-Liang Li , Minfeng Gu

It has been found that a class of optically-thin two-temperature advection-dominated accretion solutions explains many observations of low-luminosity accreting black holes. Here it is shown that these models give a satisfactory description…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ramesh Narayan

Bondi-Hoyle accretion configurations occur as soon as a gravitating body is immersed in an ambient medium with a supersonic relative velocity. From wind-accreting X-ray binaries to runaway neutron stars, such a regime has been witnessed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Ileyk El Mellah , Fabien Casse

We describe general-relativistically a spherically symmetric stationary fluid accretion onto a black hole. Relativistic effects enhance mass accretion, in comparison to the Bondi model predictions, in the case when backreaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Edward Malec

We calculate the radiation spectrum and its time variability of the black hole accretion disk-corona system based on the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. In explaining the spectral properties of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Norita Kawanaka , Yoshiaki Kato , Shin Mineshige

Using new APEX and JCMT spectroscopy of the CO 2-1 line, we undertake a controlled study of cold molecular gas in moderately luminous Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and inactive galaxies from the Luminous Local AGN with Matched Analogs…

Variable X-ray absorption has been observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN) on several time scales. Observations allow us to identify the absorber with clouds associated either with the clumpy torus (parsec scales, long timescales) or with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-18 Mario Sanfrutos , Giovanni Miniutti , Michal Dovčiak , Beatriz Agís-González

We present the results of X-ray spectral analysis of 22 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with a small scattering fraction selected from the Second XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalogue using hardness ratios. They are candidates of buried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kazuhisa Noguchi , Yuichi Terashima , Hisamitsu Awaki

The results of a 0.4-10.0 keV ASCA spectral analysis of a sample of low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN; M51, NGC 3147, NGC 4258), low-ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs; NGC 3079, NGC 3310, NGC 3998, NGC 4579, NGC 4594) and starburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ptak , P. Serlemitsos , T. Yaqoob , R. Mushotzky

To understand why supercritical accretion is feasible onto a neutron star, we carefully examine the accretion flow dynamics by 2.5-dimensional general relativistic (GR) radiation magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations, comparing the cases…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga

The issue of the observability of Old Isolated Neutron Stars (ONSs) accreting from the interstellar gas, is reconsidered using the spectra presented in Zampieri {\it et al.\/} (1995). In particular, we focus our attention on the overall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Silvia Zane , Roberto Turolla , Luca Zampieri , Monica Colpi , Aldo Treves

We study the appearance of the neutron star - accretion disk system as seen by a distant observer in the UV/X-ray domain. The observed intensity spectra are computed assuming non-spherical geometry of the whole system, in which outgoing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Rozanska , B. Beldycki , J. Madej , T. P. Adhikari , B. You

Accretion disks around stellar-mass black holes offer unique opportunities to study the fundamental physics of standard thin disks, super-Eddington disks, and structure that may be connected to flux variability. These local analogues of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 J. M. Miller , D. Barret , E. Cackett , M. Diaz Trigo , C. Done , E. Gallo , J. Kaastra , C. Motch , C. Pinto , G. Ponti , N. Webb , A. Zoghbi